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Opposites attract: Monkeys choose mating partners with different genes

Biology / Evolution

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The world's largest species of monkey 'chooses' mates with genes that are different from their own to guarantee healthy and strong offspring, according to a new research study.


Supervolcano eruption -- in Sumatra -- deforested India 73,000 years ago

Supervolcano eruption -- in Sumatra -- deforested India 73,000 years ago

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 3

A new study provides "incontrovertible evidence" that the volcanic super-eruption of Toba on the island of Sumatra about 73,000 years ago deforested much of central India, some 3,000 miles from the epicenter, ...


Kill the cancer, not the patient: New toxicity testing approach could make chemo drugs safer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

For cancer patients on chemotherapy, the "cure" can be as deadly as the disease itself. Adverse drug reactions are one of the leading causes of death among patients receiving cancer treatment.


Experts: Failure to focus on farming will undermine global climate agreement and increase hunger

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Alarmed by a substantial oversight in the global climate talks leading up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next month, more than 60 of the world's most prominent agricultural scientists and leaders ...


Save the seeds: Scientists are relocating plants that may be affected by climate change

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 1

As warmer temperatures threaten to devastate plant species across the globe, scientists are taking the lead by relocating plants to safer grounds, according to a recent New York Times article.


CU-Boulder map of human bacterial diversity shows wide interpersonal differences

Map of Human Bacterial Diversity Shows Wide Interpersonal Differences

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed the first atlas of bacterial diversity across the human body, charting wide variations in microbe populations that live in different ...


Research study on the European mink, Mustela lutreola

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The European mink, Mustela lutreola, is a species catalogued as in danger of extinction, due to the large decline in their population over the past century. It is considered to be one of the most endangered mammals, both l ...


New research shows how mobile DNA survives -- and thrives -- in plants, animals

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bits of movable DNA called transposable elements or TEs fill up the genomes of plants and animals, but it has remained unclear how a genome can survive a rapid burst of hundreds, even thousands of new TE ...


Anyone can now download files relating to the EU dating back to 1952

EU launches digital library at Frankfut Book Fair

Technology / Internet

created Oct 18, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The European Union used the world's biggest book fair to launch the EU Bookshop's digital library, making more than 50 years of documents in about 50 languages available for free on the Internet.


Public expresses need for government intervention to reduce socio-economic disparities in health

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

As Congress debates the public health care option, a recent study reveals greater public support for reducing health care disparities among socio-economic groups (i.e. by income or education) than among racial groups. The ...


Study: Endangered AK beluga whale group declining (AP)

Study: Endangered AK beluga whale group declining

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- A government study found that a group of endangered beluga whales in Alaska is declining, raising concern that bolstered protection for the animals is not coming quickly enough.


Biodiversity loss weakens global development

Biodiversity loss weakens global development

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Biodiversity loss is undermining global development, leading scientists warn. The paper brings together a broad group of scientists and policy makers, including Natural History Museum plant expert Dr Sandra ...


Feds to decide on listing ice seals as threatened

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- A federal agency must decide within three weeks whether spotted seals, which depend on sea ice off Alaska's coast, should be listed as a threatened or endangered species.


Scientists outline planetary boundaries: A safe operating space for humanity

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

New approaches are needed to help humanity deal with climate change and other global environmental threats that lie ahead in the 21st century, according to a group of 28 internationally renowned scientists.


Taming the vast -- and growing -- digital data-sphere

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers are making an impressive effort to link up digital repositories to create a vast network of easy to search online data. The DRIVER project work - one of the largest efforts of its kind ...